Re: Which folders are shortcuts?
- From: "Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)" <mike.hall.mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:59:51 -0400
J
XP sets up these folders for a reason.. one of them is for people who may
decide to add user accounts to the system.. ease of access is another reason
for what appears to be multiple entries..
So why should you care about their presence?.. they do absolutely no harm..
they are there for your convenience should you choose to alter the way that
your computer is set up.. they take up virtually zero space on the hard
drive..
I can't understand why some decide to go delving into the sub system looking
for problems to create.. the stupid part is that many download and run the
most appallingly bad stuff that creates more problems than ever an empty XP
folder can..
Some of the folders are 'system protected' and for good reason.. when
computer illiterates download stuff and don't know where its gone, they can
be pointed to these default save folders.. Win 9x never had them, and the
amount of people not able to find files after hours downloading through dial
up connections were huge.. I heard chat room experts tell these people to
download to the desktop.. hahahahaha, just what an overloaded desktop
needed.. and they wondered why Win 9x used to crash out..
Programs like Clean Sweep used to find duplicates.. again, some files needed
to be in multiple folders, but whatever.. users would delete multiple
entries of ctldll32, vbrunXXX (or similar) and then find that virtually no
program would run anymore..
If XP has installed multiple elements of something, you can bet your life
that at some point in time, there will be, or already is, a need for it..
Use your computer productively.. whether that is to defeat the enemy in
Delta Force 2, create a newsletter in MS Publisher, edit holiday photos or
videos, or playing online Bingo, make the computer work for you and forget
about the inner workings until you definitely have a problem.. and come that
time, return here to get fixes rather than delve into what appears to a
layman to be an illogical system
BTW.. the biggest single threat to the world is man without wisdom wanting
to change it.. the biggest single threat to a computer is a user/operator
without wisdom wanting to change it..
--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User
"J Lunis" <jay.lunis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43048A90.4050302@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:
>> Silva
>>
>> For general shortcuts, I would agree with what you say, but the OP is
>> looking at 'shortcuts' where the system may not allow deletion..
>>
> Well, since you sign in as MS-MVP, I guess you know something. Are you
> saying the My Documents and subfolders shortcuts are 'special' and can't
> safely be deleted?
> Do I really need 5 of these things?
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